Will DePue: all progress will soon be data bottlenecked, not intelligence bottlenecked
willdepue · x · 2026-10-13
Will DePue argues that soon all progress will be data bottlenecked, not intelligence bottlenecked — bio is data bottlenecked, astronomy is data bottlenecked, "data all the way down." It echoes the broader discussion from Nat Lambert and others on trustworthy data and verifier quality: once model capability is no longer scarce, high-quality data becomes the industry-wide bottleneck.
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